If he still wants to be a Mormon, let him.

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Another comment from postmormon. org concerning a post  about a man who left his teaching job as professor of religion at BYU and resigned his membership from the LDS Church. The man still considers himself to be a Mormon.




Posted: 10 August 2014 11:11 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]   

   
 
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This guy sounds like John Dehlin. I just cannot understand Mormons who believe that they have the truth, but the prophet and apostles and all the other members do not. People like this believe in a sort of liberal God who doesn't care much about what form the worship of Him takes. In my mind that is just a step away from deciding that God or the gods do not care if you are a Christian, and two steps away from deciding that there is no evidence that gods exist and that you should just live your life according to morality instead of religion. 






Heretic,


If people want to believe in a liberal god that doesn't care how they worship "Him", then that is their choice.  If they decide that Yahweh or other gods do not care if they are a Christian and then decide that there is no evidence that any deities exist and decide to lead their lives according to secular morality instead of religion, then they have the right to do that. Why do you care so much? I don't know if you are still religious, spiritual-but-not-religious or non-religious, but people have the right to decide what they believe for themselves, even if they don't have any credible evidence to support their beliefs.  Not everyone in the world is a Christian or believes that the Christian god is real. Not everyone believes that the Christian religion is the "one and only true religion". Some people consider the Christian god to be a false god and do not think that Christianity is the "one and only true religion". If this dude wants to keep identifying as a Mormon, let him. Think about it.